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An Edition Of The Rover - Term Papers

An Edition Of The Rover

This project grew out of an exercise designed primarily to give
graduate students practical experience in the processes of textual
bibliography. It was continued and completed based on two beliefs:
first, that the errors found amoung extant editions are significant
enough to warrant further revision, and second, that the existence of a
text with format and language accessible to modern readers is essential
to the survival of this important work. With these aims in mind, we
have worked to produce that respects not only
the believed intentions of the author and the integrity of the earliest
texts, but also the needs and concerns of contemporary students,
teachers, actors, directors, ...

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edition of the
collected theater.”
Most of the changes documented in the textual notes stem from
substantive discrepancies between these three texts. Often these
discrepancies are the result of words or phrases being inverted from one
edition to another. Note 44, for instance, concerns the stage
directions in a scene where Florinda hugs Belvile and his vizard falls
off. In the earliest edition, the hugging precedes the unmasquing, but
in the 1697 edition, the masque falls off before the embrace. The order
in which these actions are performed have significant consequence for
the audience’s understanding of Florinda’s motivations: is she hugging
Belvile because she thinks he is Belvile, or because she thinks he is
someone else? Other noted discrepancies are cases where words were
omitted in one or more of the editions. In the 1677 and 1915 versions,
for example, Philipo delivers the line in Act III, “Blame me not,
Lucetta”; yet in the 1697 version, the ...

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